Century Quotes · Page 6

To be a professional golfer in the 21st century, you must be an athlete.

— Paige Spiranac

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

— Pete Hamill

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

— Phil Harding

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

— Jilly Cooper

Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

— Sunil Gavaskar

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

— Claude Debussy

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

— Greg Roberts

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

— Emile Zola

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as…

— Phil Zimmermann

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first…

— Stephenie Meyer

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you…

— Peter F. Hamilton

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected…

— Lawrence Lessig

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very,…

— Floyd Abrams

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

— Peter Kay

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new…

— Debbie Stabenow

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to.…

— Mitch Albom

I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century,…

— Philip Kitcher

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open…

— Hannah Arendt

Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the…

— Noam Chomsky

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that…

— Neil Gaiman

The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and…

— Dalai Lama

The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be…

— Eben Moglen

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,…

— Quincy Jones

In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes…

— Mark Shields

The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests…

— Stephen Jay Gould

George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed…

— John Lewis Gaddis

Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key…

— Arthur Kroker

The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant…

— Edward Jenks

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of…

— Milan Kundera

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus…

— Richard Dawkins

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom…

— Cornelia Funke

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

— Francis Schaeffer

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

— Sylvia Earle

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

— Gordon Getty

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

— Orson Welles

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

— Jonathan Sacks

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

— Frank O'Hara

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

— Marian Wright Edelman